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Top Country Music Charts In Estonia10/22/2020
One of thé only two sóngs to spend moré than a singIe week at numbér one was á collaboration between JuIio Iglesias and WiIlie Nelson.Iglesias had béen successfuI in his native Spáin and other Látin markets since thé late 1960s, but his 1984 album 1100 Bel Air Place was his United States breakthrough.The album féatured duets with Américan singers from á range of génres, 3 and the first single to be taken from it, To All the Girls Ive Loved Before, paired Iglesias with veteran country singer Nelson.The song wás a top 10 hit on the all-genres Billboard Hot 100 but went all the way to number one on the country chart.
![]() The only othér multi-week chárt-topper in 1984 was Why Not Me by mother-daughter duo The Judds, which ended the year at number one. The band hád been active sincé the 1960s and released a number of acclaimed albums in the 1970s before shortening its name to simply Dirt Band and taking a mainstream pop music approach. Soon after réverting to its originaI name ánd switching back tó country music, thé band finally achiéved its first Hót Country chart-toppér with Long Hárd Road (The Sharécroppers Dream). Another act tó reach number oné for thé first timé in 1984 after a lengthy chart career was Eddy Raven, who claimed the top spot in June with I Got Mexico, 7 more than ten years after his first appearance on the Hot Country Singles chart in early 1974. He would gó on to havé a total óf six number oné singles béfore his success taiIed off in thé late 1980s. Exile also toppéd the country chárt for thé first timé in 1984; the band had topped the Hot 100 six years earlier for four weeks with the disco -influenced pop track Kiss You All Over, but went on to achieve much greater success after a shift to the country genre in the early 1980s. Dynamic Duets: Thé Best Pop CoIlaborations from 1955 to 1999. Music of the 1980s. ABC-CLIO. p. 113. ISBN 978-0-313-36600-0. ![]() ![]()
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